Posts filed under ‘black articles’
The Truth About Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus, whose real name is Cristobol Colon, of course did not discover America in 1492. In fact, he never claimed to have done so; white historians did it for him. Indigenous people and Afrikans were already living in the western hemisphere, thousands of years before his expedition…
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Creating Jim Crow
The emergence of segregation in the South actually began immediaely after the Civil War when the formerly enslaved people acted quickly to establish their own churches and schools separate from whites…
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The Black Codes of 1865
Almost every aspect of life was regulated, including the freedom to roam…
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